Top "Salt" questions

Cryptography function that takes random bits and a string (typically a password) and uses a one-way hash to provide a new string that can be used for authentication without providing access to the original string.

What is the optimal length for user password salt?

Any salt at all will obviously help when salting and hashing a user's password. Are there any best practices for …

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How can I store my users' passwords safely?

How much more safe is this than plain MD5? I've just started looking into password security. I'm pretty new to …

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Hashing in SHA512 using a salt? - Python

I have been looking through ths hashlib documentation but haven't found anything talking about using salt when hashing data. Help …

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How to generate a good salt - Is my function secure enough?

Here's the function I'm using to generate random salts: function generateRandomString($nbLetters){ $randString=""; $charUniverse="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789"; for($i=0; $i<$nbLetters; $…

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What is SALT and how do i use it?

I have been searching around and I am still unsure of what a "salt" is and how to use/implement …

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Best Practices: Salting & peppering passwords?

I came across a discussion in which I learned that what I'd been doing wasn't in fact salting passwords but …

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How do you turn on password hashing (SSHA) in openLDAP

For the life of me, I cannot seem to find this anywhere and if anyone can even just give me …

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Spring Security Custom Authentication and Password Encoding

Is there a tutorial out there or does anyone have pointers on how to do the following with Spring-Security? Task: …

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how to implement sha 512,md5 and salt encryption all for one password

$pass="test" the above variable contains a password called test.I want to hash this password using sha512 md5 and …

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Generating a salt in PHP

What's the best way to generate a cryptographically secure 32 bytes salt in PHP, without depending on libraries seldom included in …

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